Dancing on Ropes

Höfundur: Anna Aslanyan (Útgáfa: 0)
Dancing on Ropes

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'Full of lively stories. . . leaves the reader with an awed respect for the translator's task' EconomistWould Hiroshima have been bombed if Japanese contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Is it alright for missionaries to replace the Bible's 'white as snow' with 'white as fungus' in places where snow never falls? Who, or what, is Kuzma's mother, and why was Nikita Khrushchev so threateningly obsessed with her (or it)? The course of diplomacy rarely runs smooth; without an invisible army of translators and interpreters, it could hardly run at all.

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Útgefandi
Profile Books
ISBN
9781782835523
Print ISBN
9781788162630
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
0
Höfundar
Anna Aslanyan
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2021-05-20
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
10
Afritunar takmörkun
10

Kaflar

  • Cover Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 Shaking the World
  • 2 Comic Effects
  • 3 The Arts of Flattery
  • 4 Observation and Analysis
  • 5 Treasures of the Tongue
  • 6 The Sublime Porte
  • 7 Infidelities
  • 8 Precision Was Not a Strong Point of Hitler’s
  • 9 Little Nothing
  • 10 The Last Two Dragomans
  • 11 As Oriental as Possible
  • 12 Fifty Per Cent of Borges
  • 13 Word-worship
  • 14 Journalation
  • 15 Dealing with the Natives
  • 16 Rectify the Names
  • 17 The Obligation of the Competent Authorities
  • 18 Alogical Elements
  • Notes on Sources
  • Acknowledgements